[ecrea] Call for papers - Turkish Journal of Communication

Call for papers: Cinema Experiences


Turkish Journal of Communication (GSU Ileti-s-im) is inviting papers for 
its 23rd issue, which is scheduled to be published on December 2015.

Editors of Special Issue: Aydin Çam (Çukurova University)/Nilgün Tutal 
(Gaatasaray University)

(aydinaksu /at/ gmail.com)/(ntutal /at/ gsu.edu.tr)

Deadline for submission: 01.09.2015

We accept papers in three languages: English-Turkish-French

Journal's website: http://iletisimdergisi.gsu.edu.tr/index



Cinema Experiences


Belle Époque bands together two substantial phenomena, which mostly 
specify present human experiences: the city and the cinema. The city 
“that is simultaneously the machinery and the hero of modernity” 
(Certeau, 1984, p. 95) constitutes a symbiosis with the cinema “that is 
the symbolic art of modernity” (Pezzalla, 2006, p. 11); and since then, 
these two facts become both the place and the signifier of economic, 
political, social, cultural transformations. “Film art earns its 
greatest successes by realising that it is the psychological meeting 
place of the masses; it fascinates the middle class, with its army of 
‘employees’, minor civil servants and private officials, commercial 
travelers and shop-assistants”. And furthermore it has always been used 
to bridge the gaps between the classes (Hauser, p. 160). The role of 
cinema is amazing: “It exploded this prison-world with the dynamite of 
the split second, so that now mankind can set off calmly on journeys of 
adventure among cities’ far-flung debris” (Benjamin, 2008, p. 37).

“Cinema provides complex representations of modern urban experience. It 
takes its audiences into the labyrinth, exposes them to the dangers, the 
fears, the eroticism of the streets; but it can also put them above and 
beyond the threats of the city, affording them the security of panoramic 
vision, the view of the angels” (Robins, 1996, p. 131–132). However, 
these experiences are equally to be transformed, just as every other 
phenomena of the century: Cities and urban experiences, film art, cinema 
spaces, cinema audiences, and watching practices transform in time and 
different forms and practices come out. Nowadays, the cultural geography 
of most cities is specifically determined by cinema (Shiel, 2004); and 
the experiences of cinema move into a global context (Fitzmaurice, 
2004). “Cinema is all around you outside ever after; all over the city, 
that marvellous, continuous performance of films and scenarios” 
(Baudrillard, 1988, p. 56).


This special issue based on cinema(tic) experiences  which include –but 
not limited to– following possible topics an themes:

–        Re-transformed cinema experiences based on economic, political, 
social, cultural, and etc. transformations;

–        What is the cinema audience? (Foucault, 2006). Who is the 
man-just-left-the-theatre? (Atilgan, 2011).

–        Demography of cinema audience: Cinema audience and the 
transformations of audience profiles;

–        Cinematic spaces and spatial experiences;

–        Transformations of cinematic spaces and watching experiences;

–        Transformations of watching experiences based on technological 
changes;

–        Urban transformations and transforming cinema experiences;

–        Modernity and cinema experiences;

–        Writing cinema history – History of audience-based cinema 
experiences.



 References

Atilgan, Y. (2011). Aylak Adam (22nd Edition). Istanbul: Yapi Kredi 
Yayinlari.

Benjamin, W. (2008). The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological 
Reproducibility and other Writings on Media. Trans. E. Jephcott and H. 
Zohn. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Baudrillard, J. (1988). America. London: Verso Books.

Certeau, M. (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. S. Rendall. 
Berkeley: University of California Press.

Michel, F. (1984). What is an Author?. The Foucault Reader, New York: 
Pantheon Books.

Hauser, A. (1999). The Social History of Art – Volume IV: Naturalism, 
Impressionism, The Film Age (3rd Edition). London & New York: Routledge.

Pezzella, M. (2006). Sinemada Estetik. Trans. F. Demir. Ankara: Dost 
Kitabevi.

Robins, K. (1996). Into the Image – Culture and Politics in the Field of 
Vision. London & New York: Routledge.

Fitzmaurice, T. (2004). Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context. 
Shiel, M. & Fitzmaurice, T. (Eds.) in Cinema and the City – Film and 
Urban Societies in a Global Context (2nd Ed.) (p. 19–30). Oxford & 
Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers ltd.

Shiel, M. (2004). Cinema and the City in History and Theory. Shiel, M. & 
Fitzmaurice, T. (Eds.) in Cinema and the City – Film and Urban Societies 
in a Global Context (2nd Ed.) (p. 1–18). Oxford & Massachusetts: 
Blackwell Publishers ltd.

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